Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets 373
wallykeyster writes "The Register is reporting on Andrew Tridgell publicly demonstrating how to interoperate with Bitkeeper. During his keynote at the Linux.Conf.Au, Tridgell connected to a BitKeeper site via telnet and used the mostly forgotten "help" tool. Ethical arguments of aside, what really counts as reverse engineering anyway?"
Bit Keeper's actually... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mod parent up, then (Score:3, Funny)
(yeah, yeah, I know the Preview button is there - you can give him some of my karma for not previewing)
The Linux Life? (Score:5, Funny)
Next thing you know, Torvalis will be breaking up with Perens because "well, he knows what he did."
Person 1 liked a tool. Person 2's actions caused the first person to lose rights to his tool. Person 1 vents. Person 3 vents on Person 1. BFD.
Soon, there will be a group hug and an exchange of hair care products. End of story. Welcome to "life in the big leagues of software." Tune in next week, when Person 5 attempts to purchase a voltage regulator.
Re:Using BK's servers (Score:3, Funny)
Gee, if Linux/Microsoft is so brittle that it cannot protect itself from a hostile client, people shouldn't use it either.
Re:lol @ #buttes, failures. (Score:5, Funny)
I did some research on him:
He is Mikael Johansson.
His slashdot ID is 814403.
And here is a link to his account in case you want to know more: http://slashdot.org/~Mikael%20Johansson [slashdot.org].
Re:lol @ #buttes, failures. (Score:3, Funny)
Tell that to AT&T then (or SCO now)
What part of this don't you get? (Score:3, Funny)
Any questions?
Re:Linus' new RCS name: 'git' (Score:3, Funny)
Re:lol @ #buttes, failures. (Score:3, Funny)